XxAndreaxX
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Hi all I’m in spain, I bought a custom fit sealed subwoofer for my smart roadster. Its the isotec smart roadster subwoofer.
If you search in google, you can see, that’s a really tiny car and every cm and kg is gold.
Its driven by an 8” peerless 110W RMS 4ohm subwoofer. I bought an 2x 70W RMS amp, bridged to 140 output.
My first need from the sub, is a very deep bass, and that sub, fails totally. The LPF is set to 50hz, at 30-40% volume, its sounds quiet good, but then, distorsion kicks in quiet soon. The sound gets very punchy and dry as soon as distorsion kicks in.
I can set the LPF to 128hz, and the output gets more powerful, but I dont really like the sound, very dry punchy and cheap, doesn’t even sound like a subwoofer, sounds more like my grandpa’s 80’ 2 way loudspeakers.
So I bought Sundown’s X8 sub 4ohm version a few days ago. Did not come yet, and I fear it won’t fit in the enclosure but that’s not the point.
I wonder if I will get a better output. I searched for the X8, because I’m fed up of low excursion, and simply searched for one of the best excursions out there for that price.
Now the tricky part. I can’t change enclosure, its a 10l minus the space taken from the driver. I don’t think its portable, no space, and the whole box is uneven, because it has to fit into the car.
X8 is not sealed friendly, does it mean I’ll have a bad output?
My idea was, to fit that thing, drive it with my 140 watt amp set at 50hz and hope for no distorsion.
I mean, the actual sub, is loud enough, the problem is the quality it total **** because of distorsion.
I know its retarded to drive 750Watt sub with 140Watts amp but atm I don’t need more. Maybe I’ll upgrade in the future, but the whole car is limited, battery is 12V-40A
Another question is, will the amp explode while driving that sub at 75% of power?
I was looking for diverse subs, including some Kicker, SA8, sealed friendly subs etc... but the X8 has such a great excursion, I have very much space for upgrade in the future.
Thanks!
PS: If the amp is set to 50hz, why does it still sounds punchy?? I'm a newby in this, LPF what does it really mean?? Does it means, it peaks at a certain frequency, like if its set to 100hz does it mean it peaks at 100hz, or does it mean it cuts everything from 100hz on???
If you search in google, you can see, that’s a really tiny car and every cm and kg is gold.
Its driven by an 8” peerless 110W RMS 4ohm subwoofer. I bought an 2x 70W RMS amp, bridged to 140 output.
My first need from the sub, is a very deep bass, and that sub, fails totally. The LPF is set to 50hz, at 30-40% volume, its sounds quiet good, but then, distorsion kicks in quiet soon. The sound gets very punchy and dry as soon as distorsion kicks in.
I can set the LPF to 128hz, and the output gets more powerful, but I dont really like the sound, very dry punchy and cheap, doesn’t even sound like a subwoofer, sounds more like my grandpa’s 80’ 2 way loudspeakers.
So I bought Sundown’s X8 sub 4ohm version a few days ago. Did not come yet, and I fear it won’t fit in the enclosure but that’s not the point.
I wonder if I will get a better output. I searched for the X8, because I’m fed up of low excursion, and simply searched for one of the best excursions out there for that price.
Now the tricky part. I can’t change enclosure, its a 10l minus the space taken from the driver. I don’t think its portable, no space, and the whole box is uneven, because it has to fit into the car.
X8 is not sealed friendly, does it mean I’ll have a bad output?
My idea was, to fit that thing, drive it with my 140 watt amp set at 50hz and hope for no distorsion.
I mean, the actual sub, is loud enough, the problem is the quality it total **** because of distorsion.
I know its retarded to drive 750Watt sub with 140Watts amp but atm I don’t need more. Maybe I’ll upgrade in the future, but the whole car is limited, battery is 12V-40A
Another question is, will the amp explode while driving that sub at 75% of power?
I was looking for diverse subs, including some Kicker, SA8, sealed friendly subs etc... but the X8 has such a great excursion, I have very much space for upgrade in the future.
Thanks!
PS: If the amp is set to 50hz, why does it still sounds punchy?? I'm a newby in this, LPF what does it really mean?? Does it means, it peaks at a certain frequency, like if its set to 100hz does it mean it peaks at 100hz, or does it mean it cuts everything from 100hz on???
